Building Bridges
with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Monday, December, 31, 2012, 7 - 8 pm EST
over WBAI Radio, 99.5 FM,
or streaming live at http://www.wbai.org
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A Building Bridges New Yearâs Eve Special
for January 1st, Haitiâs 209th Independence Day

Trade Union Leaders From Latin America & Caribbean
Demand UN Haiti Occupation End!
with
. Julio Turra, National Exec. Dir. , United Trade Union Central
of Workers of Brazil (CUT)
. Fignolé St. Cyr, Gen. Sec'y, Autonomous Confederation of Haitian
Workers (CATH);
. Jocelyn Lapitre, leader with Front Against Profit (LKP), Guadeloupe;
. Alan Benjamin, Intl. Liaison Committee of Workers & Peoples (ILC);

January 1st marks the 209th anniversary of Haitian independence. And, in
commemoration of Haiti, the 1st Black Republic in the world Building Bridges
talks with world-renowned trade union representatives both about the issues
of their working classes and about their demand that the foreign military
occupation of Haiti known as the UN Mission to Stabilize Haiti or MINUSTAH,
deployed since 2004 immediately end, and that Haitiâs sovereignty and right
to self-determination be respected.

The delegation was part of a broad continental campaign that came to the
UN to tell its officials âif the United Nations genuinely wants to help the Haitian people, they should do like Cuba and Venezuela. These are the two countries that really helped Haiti after, and even before, the earthquake. There is not a single Cuban or Venezuelan soldier on Haitiâs territory. But there are Cuban doctors. There is Venezuelan oil. Venezuela and Cuba are building an international airport in Cap Haitien. This is the kind of help that Haiti needs. We have problems of roads, water, electricity, and food. Haiti does not need soldiers! Instead of giving us soldiers, give us technicians. We donât need soldiers they donât help us with any development. On the contrary, they killed thousands of Haitiains by bringing cholera to Haiti, explained the Haitian labor representative.
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